U+FCC8 "ﳈ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC8 "ﳈ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script that represents the initial form of the letters Kaf (ك) and Meem (م) combined into a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed to support complex calligraphic and typesetting needs in historical or specialized text. It is typically employed when formatting ligature heavy Arabic text to visually mimic traditional handwriting styles where the initial Kaf flows seamlessly into the following Meem, though in modern digital contexts, such ligatures are often replaced by automatic shaping software.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳈ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳈ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter